Stock Photo of The Bragatheeswarar Temple, also known as Big Temple. `In the twenty-fifth year of Rajaraja Cholan A.D 1009-10 on the 257th day of the year the king handed over the copper pot for the finial at the top of the Vimana`. It weighed about 235 lbs., and was overlaid with gold plate of weight of 292.5 Kalanju or nearly 35 lbs.